Zapp

Zapp: More Sound To The Pound...

Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 13 January 1981

Roger, Larry, Lester and Terry "Zapp" Troutman have "bounced" their way to the winners circle with their hit single and debut album. With an overload ...

Roger... The Keeper Of The P-Funk!

Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 19 October 1982

From out of the P-Funk cauldron, the Troutman brothers have emerged supreme. In this exclusive and revealing interview, Roger Troutman explains the thinking behind the ...

Zapp: The New Zapp IV U (Warner Brothers)

Review by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 18 January 1986

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Zapp, Shirley Murdock: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 12 July 1986

ZAPP'S UK debut was always going to be a bit of a circus, bearing in mind that the man at the controls is Roger Troutman, ...

Zapp: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 12 July 1986

ZAPP LIVE were perhaps the most extreme spectacle I have ever witnessed, with both band and audience abandoning inhibitions more extensively than at any rock ...

Zapp: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 12 July 1986

YOU'D EXPECT the diehards who shelled out and showed up to see Zapp, on one of London's culturally busiest weekends, to dance holes in The ...

The House Of Zapp

Interview by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 6 September 1986

Ohio is a soul city, home of Bootsy, the Ohio Players and now the Troutman family alia the Human Body alias ZAPP. Mainman Roger tells ...

Roger Troutman: Unlimited! (Reprise)

Review by Don Snowden, The Boston Phoenix, 18 December 1987

THE DAYTON, Ohio-based Troutman clan that has given us Zapp and now Roger has developed perhaps the most schizoid personality in black music. ...

Roger Troutman: Empires & Dance

Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 14 May 1988

SIMON REYNOLDS WAGS CHINS WITH ROGER TROUTMAN, THE MANDARIN OF SURREAL FUNKSTERS ZAPP, AND DISCOVERS WHY SCRITTI'S GREEN WAS SO DESPERATE TO RECORD WITH THE ...

Shirley Murdock: A Woman's Point Of View (Elektra 960 791-1)

Review by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 19 July 1988

SO FAR, Shirley's career has been enjoying an assured, steady upward movement. Firstly, she landed the position as Zapp's featured female vocalist, then left for ...